In the fast Lane : In 2014 Anne Hidalgo became the first woman to be elected mayor of Paris. She has since pursued a vigorous political agenda of reducing the number of cars on the streets of the French capital. But not everybody is happy with her programme of transforming Parisian urbanism. / von Cyrille Véran

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